The Pyrenean Haute Route - A Trekker's Guidebook

Guidebook to the Pyrenean Haute Route (HRP), one of Europe’s most beautiful and challenging walks. Taking the highest practical line through the Pyrenees on both French and Spanish sides of the main ridge, the route is 800km long. The guidebook breaks it into 42 stages, and adds 10 major peak ascents along the way. Full village and facility details.

The Pyrenean Haute Route

High level trail through the Pyrenees

Author

Ton Joosten

Cover

Paperback - PVC

Edition

First

ISBN_13

9781852844264

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Price

£15.00

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Front Cover (1)
Location Map (1)
Overview Maps (2)
Sample Routes (1)
Sample Photos (5)

Seasons

Mid-June to mid-September. Some risk of snow on high passes in June, and temperatures fall in September. August can be hot and thundery.

Centres

Starts at Hendaye on the Atlantic and finishes at Banyuls sur Mer on the Mediterranean. Avoids centres as much as possible, but rarely far from facilities.

Difficulty

A long and challenging trek through some wild and remote country. Limited waymarking, rescue remote.

Must See

Pic du Midi, the regions between Ordesa and Gavarnie, summit ascents including the Vignemale and Pico de Aneto. But the experience of this 800km trek must be the big attraction.

'We have reviewed many books on the Pyrenees, mostly by Kev Reynolds who is well known and has written about this beautiful mountain range for more than 25 years. He has visited other mountain ranges, however the Pyrenees seems to be his favourite.
Ton Joosten dedicates this guide to him saying that Kev’s books have been a constant source of inspiration. The author, unlike Kev Reynolds, has never been anywhere else since his first visit to the Pyrenees in 1986 and has walked every stage of the Haute Route – a footpath from Hendaye on the Atlantic to Banyuls-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean, which follows the main ridge of the Pyrenees – at least twice, as well as completing the GR11 and GR10 and claims that there is only one long-distance trail guaranteed to hold the walker spellbound: the Pyrenean Haute Route.
This guide is well up to the publisher’s high standard.'